The Higher Commission for Riyadh Development (HCRD) announced yesterday that a comprehensive design for Al-Hair lakes to establish the location as an eco-tourism site has been finished. Al-Hair lakes are downstream from the Wadi Hanifa.
In his statement, Head of the Projects and the Planning Center at the HCRD Ibrahim Mohammed Al-Sultan said the environmental rehabilitation project for the lakes is designed to convert the site into a natural park and other environmentally friendly places for people living in the capital.
“The project covers a 40 square kilometer area including the protected Al-Hair and includes refining the flood canal. It will also work to reorganize the 750,000 sq. meter lakes and the creation of a permanent water channels flow as well as environmental rehabilitation for each of the lakes and Al-Hair dam. Excess vegetation, dust and debris formed over the past decades will be removed and cleaned.”
The project also will include the establishment of five islands within the lakes and the construction of five bridges over the canals, as well the establishment of two control towers in addition to the planting of 1,600 trees in various parts of the site.
The ambitious plan also will work for the realignment of service lines and public utilities, in addition to redesigning 14 kilometers worth of local roads to serve surrounding farms. It will also provide 162 seats for visitors and picnickers.
